Lesson 2: Fair/UnFair Game
Comparing the Classroom Charter
Students will demonstrate understanding of equality and fairness with respect to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
How
- Matching Game: Provide students with Handout #4.1. Students match "rights" with the descriptions.
- Provide students with the simplified version of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a copy of the Venn diagram.
- Discuss the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- Teacher models comparison using the Venn Diagram (Handout #4.3) with the whole class using examples from the Class Charter of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Explain that the similarities go on the parts where the circles overlap, and the differences go where the circles do not overlap. Work with the class using some examples before assigning independent work.
- Students work in pairs or small groups and write in the similarities and differences of the two.
- Discuss the similarities and differences of the classroom charter with the Canadian charter. Why is there overlap? Why are there differences? Are things missing from either charter?
Assessment
SUGGESTED JOURNAL ENTRY
- Viewing your Venn Diagram, write about why there is a
- similarity between the Classroom Charter of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights. Why are there differences?
Extensions
- Students make posters of individual rights. The poster would include: the right as stated in the Charter, the student's interpretation of the right, and a picture illustrating the right.
- Students compare the two charters and the International Rights of the Child on a triple Venn diagram.
